One Ingredient Challenge: Chicken Stock

Part of an ongoing series of cooking from scratch. That is, we cook something from basic items that don't have multiple ingredients (e.g. store-bought spaghetti sauce includes all sorts of spices and maybe other stuff too; we'd start with tomatoes and individual spices and add them together to make our own sauce). See other challenges here.

Back in England, L helped Mommy make some chicken stock from scratch. They took a dutch oven and filled it with the following ingredients:

• Water
• Bone-in chicken parts (we used drum sticks)
• Garlic
• Onion
• Bay leaves
• Rosemary
• Thyme
• Carrot
• Salt
• Pepper

L adding ingredients

The pot simmered for a few hours.

Soon to be yummy

Then they took all the stuff out and had a nice broth that we could use in other recipes. Sometimes we substitute some chicken broth for water when making rice to give it a little more flavor.  We also have a few stove-top pasta recipes that call for chicken stock. It also makes a nice base for soups or when making ramen noodles (or Kung Fu Panda noodles, as L likes to call them).